Travolting

Travolting episodes:

• 06.19.2024

  The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

  This 2004 film tells the story of Jeremiah, a young boy who bounces in and out of the care of his drug-addicted neglectful mother and explores the trauma and hardship a developing mind experiences while living life on an unstable...

  
• 06.12.2024

  The Dramatic Explorations Era (Recap Episode)

  Jeff and Stuart recap the height of Winona's career from Bram Stoker's Dracula, Age of Innocence, Little Women and many more masterpieces. The boys also talk about the trajectory her career is heading towards at the point and the professional...

  
• 06.05.2024

  Mr. Deeds

  Not to be confused with the 1936 Frank Capra movie "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" or the 1939 Frank Capra movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington", this 2002 Adam Sandler comedy is one of the many Sandler movies that dominated...

  
• 05.29.2024

  S1m0ne

  In the year 2002, film director Viktor Taransky played by Al Pacino asks the question: "What if we replaced actors with artificial intelligence?" and he gets laughed off the metaphorical stage of hollywood; over 20 years later SAG-AFTRA and the...

  
• 05.22.2024

  Zoolander

  But for real.... why male models?

  
• 05.15.2024

  Lost Souls

  One of the many movies that was made to be released in 1999 when y2k and the end-of-days talk was all the hype, except this movie got delayed and was released late 2000.

  
• 05.08.2024

  Autumn in New York

  A romantic drama about a young woman diagnosed with a terminal illness falls in love with an older bachelor. None of that is really that important. The major thing you need to know is J.K. Simmons is in this movie...

  
• 05.01.2024

  Cash Out

  Our main man Travolta is back and he's back with a....nother boring movie.

  
• 04.24.2024

  Girl, Interrupted

  In a movie where Winona Ryder plays a depressed teenager committed to a mental institution, it's Angelina Jolie who steals the show as the sociopathic girl that "interrupts" Winona's treatment. Jeff, Stuart and special guest Ross Wood had a fun...

  
• 04.19.2024

  Celebrity

  In a film about a wayward writer in New York who tries to sleep with as many women as he can, Jeff and Stuart have some problems talking about this film directed by the infamous director Woody Allen.

  
• 04.10.2024

  Alien Resurrection

  Recorded on Easter Sunday, the boys celebrate the second (fourth?) coming of our lord and savior Ellen Ripley played by the amazing Sigourney Weaver. Directed by french film director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, this fourth installment in the Alien franchise goes turbo...

  
• 04.03.2024

  The Crucible

  Hey folks! Quick little announcement about this episode. Halfway through recording a lovely two and a half hour episode on The Crucible, a witch came into our studio and casted a spell on our recording gear, making the second half...

  
• 03.29.2024

  Looking for Richard

  To be.... or not to be... Al Pacino making a passion project about how much he loves Richard III and how he understands Shakespeare better than anybody else.

  
• 03.20.2024

  Boys

  This movie sucks. Don't watch it. But please listen to this episode where more than half of what is discussed is how Dune 2 is one of the best blockbusters of the post-Marvel/superhero era.

  
• 03.13.2024

  How to make an American Quilt

  How to make an American Quilt, is not an instructional video on how to make a quilt, but rather, how to stitch and patch the turmoils of young and old love.

  
• 03.06.2024

  Little Women

  There's not a lot of women, just a little women.

  
• 02.28.2024

  Reality Bites

  Set in the grunge 90's, Winona Ryder and her roommates try to make sense of life after college. This coming of age story is a time capsule for the trials and tribulations of young adults in the mid 90's. Directorial...

  
• 02.21.2024

  The House of the Spirits

  If a movie began showcasing a young girl living in Chile performing supernatural abilities such as telekinesis and clairvoyance, you would think that's what the movie would be about right? Wrong. If that said movie than began hinting at a...

  
• 02.14.2024

  The Age of Innocence

  After acting in a victorian age period piece where she's caught in a love triangle, Winona Ryder goes on to perform in a guilded age period piece where she is also caught in a love triangle. Winona's collaboration with Scorsese...

  
• 02.07.2024

  Bram Stoker's Dracula

  The first movie into a different era for Winona Ryder also takes to a different era in the world of cinema. Grouped with acting giants like Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu "John Wick" Reeves himself; Ryder strides in this...

  
• 01.31.2024

  The "It Girl" Era (Recap Episode)

  From Lucas to Night On Earth, Winona Ryder blew our socks off right away. Like many actors early in their career, Winona quickly finds her stride and her confidence in her performing abilities and with each proceeding film she works...

  
• 01.24.2024

  Night on Earth

  A story told in five individual vignettes, all taking place in one night in different taxi cabs across the world. This movie explores those moments where a short encounter with a stranger showcases the various passive lives people do in...

  
• 01.17.2024

  Mermaids

  Heads up gang, if you think you are about to hit play on this episode and listen to a discussion about a movie with mermaids in it... this is not going to be the episode for you. Instead, Jeff, Stuart...

  
• 01.10.2024

  Edward Scissorhands

  There was Wolverine, then Freddy Krueger, but in this movie, the man with the claws is a gentle soul who likes trimming hedges and giving hair cuts! Winona plays her most opposite role she's done so far with the blondest...

  
• 01.03.2024

  Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael

  When a small midwest town is gearing up for a reunion with their native famous celebrity; Winona Ryder's "Dinky", an outsider social recluse, contemplates if she may be the daughter of the famous Roxy Carmichael. This movie "almost" hit many...

  
• 12.27.2023

  Great Balls of Fire!

  We've seen movies like Elvis, Judy, Whiplash, Amadeus, and many others that explores an iconic artist who went through troubled times but left a legacy that will stand the test of time. This movie would like to be in that...

  
• 12.20.2023

  A Very Travolting Christmas 3: Holiday Night Fever Feat. The Shepherd

  This may be our sweatiest christmas episode yet...

  
• 12.13.2023

  Heathers

  They said this movie would kill her career before it ever began. They said this movie was tasteless, controversial and extreme; but as Christian Slater as J.D. says in the 1988 cult classic 'Heathers', "The extreme always seems to make...

  
• 12.06.2023

  1969

  The moon landing, woodstock, vietnam; these are all major events happening in the year 1969, all shown as a backdrop to two college students dodging the draft and contemplating the path of their lives. In this movie we see Winona...

  
• 11.29.2023

  Beetlejuice

  Don't say it three times! After two small roles and project, Winona takes the world by force as Lydia, the strange and peculiar girl who can see dead people in Tim Burton's 1988 cult classic, Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice not only brought...

  
• 11.22.2023

  Square Dance

  13-year-old Winona Ryder plays Gemma, an awkward small town religious girl who wants to move away from her small minded community and angry grandfather to go live with her mother in the big city, Fort Worth Texas. Much like Travolta...

  
• 11.15.2023

  Lucas

  Winona Wednesdays begins with Ryder's very first role in a motion picture, Lucas; a film starring Carey Haim, Kerri Green and the unproblematic Charlie Sheen. An 80's film that promotes healthy platonic relationships as opposed to forced and uncomfortable romances....

  
• 11.10.2023

  The Auteurist Return Era & Beyond (Recap Episode)

  Two seasons down, only 58 more to go. Jeff and Stuart cap off the seasons end with a final retrospective on Brendan Fraser starting from where he's been, what he's doing, and where we think he'll go (or should go)...

  
• 11.03.2023

  Killers of the Flower Moon

  Scorsese is back and this time, he brought our boy Fraser along. In this new resurgence of Fraser's career, the boys are excited to see Fraser perform well in the small roles he gets, and boy does he deliver! As...

  
• 10.27.2023

  Batgirl

  You may be looking at this notification on your phone and thinking "wait a second... didn't they scrap the Batgirl movie?" Where would the Travolting boys be without their inside sources? That's right... we got the scoop! A secret full...

  
• 10.20.2023

  The Whale

  It has finally arrived... the 'big' one... we mean that both literally and metaphorically. The movie that inspired the Travolting boys to investigate Fraser's career in the first place, The Whale. Joined by special guest, Justin Campbell, as well as...

  
• 10.13.2023

  No Sudden Move

  Folks, we now enter a new era with the Fraser's Edge, the Auteurist Return Era. Starting with a Soderbergh film taking place in the 1950's starring two mobsters on the run from a heist gone bad. Fraser's role? The man...

  
• 10.06.2023

  Hollywood Exile Era (Recap Episode)

  The Hollywood Exile Era was certainly tough to get through, but knowing that there was a light on the other side was what kept the boys going. Jeff and Stuart recap the rough patch of Fraser’s career and speak on...

  
• 09.29.2023

  The Secret of Karma

  Is it scientology? Is it Terryology? Is it some kind of pagan ritualistic cult? No. It’s the Secret of Karma, told to you by director and businessman Milan Friedrich. Is this movie trying to teach us a religion? A way...

  
• 09.22.2023

  Line of Descent

  Imagine an Indian version of the Godfather. Could be cool, right? Except if that’s what this movie is, why is Brendan Fraser here?

  
• 09.15.2023

  The Poison Rose...AGAIN?

  Fans of Travolting, let’s imagine what this phone call was like for a moment shall we? Jeff calling StuartStuart: Hello?Jeff: Stuart.Stuart: Yes Jeff.Jeff: I’m so sorry to have to tell you this.Stuart: Oh great what is it now?Jeff: I was...

  
• 09.08.2023

  The Nut Job

  It's Sunday 2014, you just got out of 10:30 mass with your family. After Mom finishes talking to all of her church friends while you, your siblings and Dad are waiting by the car; Mom mentions the prospects of going...

  
• 09.01.2023

  Mob Land

  The Travolting boys do a quick pit stop back to our original guy, Travolta the man himself. Mob Land takes an interesting approach when it comes to the idea of what Travolta can do in movies, because once you watch...

  
• 08.25.2023

  Gimme Shelter

  You know her from the disney classic High School Musical, now watch Vanessa Hudgens play a homeless and pregnant high school dropout who struggles to get away from her drug addict mother and get help from her successful business father...

  
• 08.18.2023

  Breakout

  Brendan Fraser takes on his next big foe in this action packed thriller… logging companies! Joined again by special guest, Alex Wilson, the boys have a big discussion on Fraser’s current career status, the ethics of neurotypical actors playing characters...

  
• 08.11.2023

  Pawn Shop Chronicles

  “One of the most vile movies I have ever seen in my life.” - Stuart, Travolting Cohost“I wish I could erase this movie from my mind.” - Beth, Travolting Guest“Pretty good in the beginning, got a little worse throughout, but...

  
• 08.04.2023

  Hair Brained

  After 50 episodes of Fraser’s highs and lows, this movie is the one that finally firmly breaks Jeff. In the words of Jeff: “This is such a nothing movie. It’s creepy. I hated the entire thing. It’s almost like the...

  
• 07.28.2023

  A Case of You

  Justin Long and Evan Rachel Wood star in this 2010's indie rom-com where a washed up writer who's sweating over what his next great book is going to be, meets a girl and decides to go down the noblest route...

  
• 07.21.2023

  Escape From Planet Earth

  Fraser returns to the animation world playing an action hero alien from outer space who relies on the brains of his smart older brother, Gary, played by Rob Corddry. The two are imprisoned by the evil forces of the US...

  
• 07.14.2023

  Whole Lotta Sole

  After winning the Oscar for Best Live Action short for the 2011 film, "The Shore". Terry George goes off to make another movie dealing with Irish characters, this time though with Brendan Fraser, admittedly a non-Irish person who seems to...